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Living Hope

SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 2016

Wednesday - Saturday

October 12 - 15

7:00 p.m. Nightly

Sunday, October 16

8:15 a.m. & 11:00 a.m.

GUEST SPEAKERS Bob Burney ~ Malcolm Carter ~ Craig Edwards ~ Jimmy Franks ~ Joe Veal

WORSHIP LEADERS Buddy Mullins ~ Doug Smith ~ Jonathan White

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SUNDAY SCHOOL TRAINING: Thursday, September 29, 7:00 p.m. SUNDAY NIGHTS AT EBENEZER: Begins Sunday, September 25, 5:30 p.m.

SENIOR ADULT TRIP: Saturday, October 1, 10:00 a.m. CEDARVILLE UNIVERSITY JUNIOR JAM: Saturday, October 8, 7:00 a.m. JUBILEE: Wednesday, October 12 - Saturday, Octo-ber 15, 7:00 p.m.; Sunday, October 16, 8:15 a.m. & 11:00 a.m.

GOLF OUTING: Saturday, September 10, 9:00 a.m. HOCKING COUNTY FAIR MINISTRY: Monday, Septem-ber 12 - Saturday, September 17, Noon to 9:00 p.m. daily

FAITH EVANGELISM MINSITRY: Begins Monday, Sep-tember 19, 5:45 p.m. FALL FAMILY CAMP OUT & FESTIVAL: Friday & Satur-day, September 23 & 24; begins 6:00 p.m. AMERICAN CHRISTIAN HERITAGE SEMINAR: Saturday, September 24, 9:30 a.m.

Our Sunday School ministry has grown and now is completely out of space with classes meeting in the hallway, sanctuary, offices, auditorium, and “the old basement “ of the Heritage Center We have two classes that need a place to meet and have no rooms

available. We are also blessed to have a new small group min-istry being birthed under the direction of Ricci Arthur, that will likewise expand our reach and growth. As we have sought the Lord in the past He has taken us down several roads and brought us to several crossroads and turned us in the right direction. Once again, as we have been walking through the long range master site planning process and are now be-ginning to narrow the master plan down to one piece of the puzzle, God is taking us exactly where we need

to be. By His divine direction we have secured the services of Don Highlander to be our architect and Impact Stewardship to assist us with our stewardship campaign. What lies ahead as God continues to direct us di-vinely? Faith! As I was reading from Oswald Cham-bers, “My Utmost For his Highest” this morning, this statement spoke loud and clear. “Every time you ven-ture out in the life of faith, you will find something in your common-sense circumstances that flatly contra-

dicts your faith. Common sense is not faith, and faith is not common sense; they stand in relation of the natu-ral and the spiritual. Can you trust Jesus Christ where your common sense cannot trust Him?”

GOD’S GREAT DIRECTIONS… BY FAITH

Proverbs 3:5-6 reminds us to “trust in the Lord with all our heart and lean not to our own understanding, in all our ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths.” Over the last 4 to 5 years we have been dili-gently asking the Lord to direct us as we began once

again thinking about expansion of our facilities. We have been very cautious as we sought first, to be-come debt free from the existing building mortgage before we moved forward. As a result, we as a church determined to launch two Sunday morning worship services, which increased our regular Sunday morning attendance by 75 people on average every Sunday morning. The early worship service is near 100% capac-ity and the second service is at 60% plus capacity.

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OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD MONTHLY COLLECTIONS

Our Operation Christmas Child ministry is continuing to collect items for this year’s Christmas shoe boxes. The goal is to assemble and send out 700 shoe boxes this year. These shoe boxes will contain toys and personal care items. Children all over the world receive these shoe boxes. Each month our church is asked to bring in items for the shoe boxes. During the next two months, the fol-lowing items are being collected:

SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER

New or like new stainless steel spoons, individually wrapped candy (suckers, Tootsie Rolls, Life

Savers, etc.). No chocolates please. The following items are also being collected: 16oz & 2 liter bottle caps, wash cloths, CD/DVDs, Match Box cars, small dolls, small balls, scissors, small deflated soccer balls, pens, small coloring books, sunglasses, and small dolls, crayons, markers, colored pencils, spiraled notebooks, pencils, and glue sticks. Our emphasis is to make homemade items. Contact Lisa

Heavener or Carol McCann to help make items or for fur-ther details.

The fall semester of the FAITH evangelism ministry begins Monday, September 19. FAITH combines discipleship and evangelism as well as equips and mobilizes Christians for lifestyle evangelism, disciple-making, and ministry. Each Monday for twelve weeks FAITH team members will

meet at 5:45 p.m. for a meal and evangelism training. From 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. teams of three make evangelistic, ministry, Sunday school, prospect and shut-in visits. There are several way to be involved with FAITH:

TEAM MEMBER Commit to the 12 week semester, learn Scripture verses, gospel presentations, and make visits.

PRAYER PARTNER Add the FAITH ministry to your prayer list. Commit to pray

for a specific team member PREPARE A MEAL

Take a turn making a meal for the FAITH teams. These are simple meals such as casseroles, pastas, etc. Drinks and des-serts are provided by the church.

BAKE COOKIES Take a turn baking three dozen cookies (chocolate chip, peanut butter, no bakes, sugar cookies, Snicker Doodles, oatmeal). No iced cookies, please. It takes approximately 80 volunteers each semester to

make FAITH an effective ministry. If you can help, contact Jim Martin.

FAITH EVENGELISM MINISTRY BEGINS SEPTEMBER 19

FOOD PANTRY DONATIONS NEEDED The following items are needed for our church food pan-try. A drop off box is located by the church front door.

macaroni & cheese dinners Hamburger Helper

canned chicken baked beans

baking needs (sugar, flour, vegetable oil) canned peaches

powdered drink mixes bottled fruit juice

cereal granola bars

Paper products (toilet paper, paper towels, napkins)

LIFT YOUR VOICE AND SING! Join The Choir

Each Wednesday 6:00 p.m.

Choir Room

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FAIR MINISTRY TO BE AT THE HOCKING COUNTY FAIR

This year’s Fair Ministry comes to a close with our participation in the Hocking County Fair.

We invite you to stop by our church booth at the Hocking County Fair Monday, September 12 through Saturday, September 17. The church booth will be open from Noon to 9:00 p.m. each day. Our booth will be located just inside the front gates. Throughout the week we will be handing out gospel tracts, church information, free popcorn, and will have water, and coffee available. We will also be doing kids face painting and will have a bike giveaway.

The church booth is also a way to promote our

church’s various ministries and upcoming events. If you have a ministry you would like to promote, or

want to volunteer to work at the church booth, con-tact Jason Lipp.

Many thanks to everyone who donated books to the church library. We also want to thank those who donated money. We received $250 and were able to purchase 28 new books and DVDs. The library is open during each church service and

Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Items can be checked out for one month.

SENIOR ADULT TRIP PLANNED

All senior adults age 60 and up are invited to our

next senior adult outing. The group will be touring the State House in Columbus on Saturday, October 1. They will leave from the church at 10:00 a.m. The tour is at noon. After the tour they will be eating at Spa-ghetti Warehouse. The tour is free of charge. Atten-dees are responsible for their meal. There is a sign up sheet in the church hallway, or you can contact Lanie Hatem Senior adults are also reminded to mark their calen-dars for the yearly senior adult dinner. This year’s din-ner will be Saturday, November 12 at noon and will

take place at the Main Campus. .

Work has begun for this year’s Live Nativity. This will be our third year and we have had an average of 500 people attend the performances each year. It takes a lot of people to make the Live Nativity happen. We would like to have 50 youth in the Youth Choir. We need up to 30 angels. There are also spots for cast members, servers, greeters, guides, costume preparation, ad-

vertising, set up and clean up. We also need live animals such as horses, donkeys, goats, and a camel. This year’s Live Nativity will be Friday and Saturday, December 9 and 10 6:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Contact Heather Dickerson to help with the Live Nativity.

LIVE NATIVITY PREPARATION UNDERWAY

FALL FAMILY CAMP OUT & FESTIVAL

Load up your campers and tents and join us for a fun weekend Friday, September 23 and Saturday, Septem-

ber 24. There will be cookouts, bonfires, an outdoor movie, laser tag, and lots of Christian fellowship. On Saturday from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. our Fall Har-vest Party takes place. This is for all children up to fourth grade. There will be lots of lively games and activities. Those attending can begin setting up campers and tents Thursday. The church is providing restroom facili-ties. Campers should bring everything they need for overnight camping. Items recommended include food, ice, cooking supplies, dinnerware, firewood, flash-

lights, lanterns, and yard games.

LIBRARY ADDS NEW SELECTIONS

THE “LEGACY OF HOPE” PROJECT IS NOW MOVING FORWARD The next steps are as follows: 1. Assimilating the Building Committee into “work groups” 2. Launch and complete our Stewardship Campaign under the direction of Gary Enfinger and Impact Stewardship.

Campaign runs September-November.

Pledged giving will beover a 3 year period.

Sunday school stewardship emphasis.

Preaching stewardship emphasis.

Training is currently underway with the Stewardship Teams.

Stewardship Team leaders are Al Webb (Campaign Chairman), Kelly/Shelia Wolfe, Steve/Lisa Heavener, Jim/Beth Martin and Dave/Julie Turner.

Everyone will be able to contribute in a number of creative ways to make the project a possibility. 3. We have secured Don Highlander of Connecting Spaces for architectural services.

Don was our architect on the existing building project.

Don has worked with Builders for Christ on volunteer driven projects. 4. Complete the "extreme interior makeover" of the Heritage Center.

The new look will be youth oriented yet user friendly for all ages!

The Ebenezer volunteer design team is hard at work developing ideas and calculating cost.

5. Calculate a clear cost of the next building phase based on architectural drawings. 6. Determine the feasibility of building the children's wing, sanctuary expansion and adult classroom addition based on securing Baptist Builders for Christ and the stewardship generosity from the people at Ebenezer.

Builders For Christ lead team will be here this October 15-16 to evaluate and pledge their support to help us building in the summer of 2017!

7. Building in 2017 will only be possible as we trust God by faith and we each sacrificially give. We are growing and out of space! However we will not build if doing so encumbers the church financially, thus preventing us from continuing to support our ongoing missions and ministries. The Legacy of Hope project will take great sacrifice on the part of every individual at Ebenezer. Sacrifice in prayer, serving, giving and sharing the load of leadership. Each individual at Ebenezer will play a critical role so that we can insure leaving a Legacy of Hope to future generations.

So we built the wall and the whole wall was joined together to half its height, for the people had a mind to work. Nehemiah 4:6

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LEGACY OF HOPE UPDATE

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CHILDRENS MINISTRY NEWS

An afternoon of fun and games is planned for Satur-day, September 24. The Fall Harvest party will be from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the church's backyard. There will be over 15 games and activities for chil-dren ages four through grade four. Each child will re-

ceive a punch card to go to each play station and will earn tickets to cash in at a prize table. Some of the games and activities include ping pong, tic tac toe, frisbee challenge, balloon burst, golf, yard memory, crafts, corn hole, and yard Yatzee. Children up to age three will have a special play area of their own. There will also be snacks available for everyone. The Fall Harvest will be a fun afternoon for the entire fam-ily. For more details, contact Carrie Shymanski.

SEPTEMBER 4 FIRST SERVICE: Vicki Raferty & Katie Alvarez SECOND SERVICE: Darin & Tina Marshall

SEPTEMBER 11 FIRST SERVICE: Seth & Shyller Stimmel SECOND SERVICE: Jessy Dexter & Carrie Shymanski

SEPTEMBER 18 FIRST SERVICE: Jessy & Ashley Herring SECOND SERVICE: Alton & Abbie Frizzel

SEPTEMBER 25 FIRST SERVICE: Caitlyn Myers & Rebecca Richards SECOND SERVICE: Heidi & Gracie Swope

OCTOBER 2 FIRST SERVICE: Vicki Rafferty & Mary Marshall SECOND SERVICE: Darin & Tina Marshall

OCTOBER 9 FIRST SERVICE: Lisa Heavener & Caitlyn Myers SECOND SERVICE: Jessy Dexter & Stacie Myers

OCTOBER 16

FIRST SERVICE: Jessy & Ashley Herring SECOND SERVICE: Joe & Ashley Heavener

OCTOBER 23 FIRST SERVICE: Greg & Jennifer Godby SECOND SERVICE: Heidi & Gracie Swope

OCTOBER 30 FIRST SERVICE: Marty Houston & Caitlyn Myers SECOND SERVICE: Nikki Nicholson & Carrie Shymanski

Junior Jam is an action-packed day at Cedarville University featuring an excit-ing opening, closing, and challenging activity stations. Children in grades three through six will take part in heart-felt worship, fun games, hands-on activities with university students, and much more. Lunch will also be provided. A group from our church will be going to Junior Jam Saturday, October 8. The group will leave the church at 6:45 a.m. and return at approximately 6:00 p.m. Cost is $25 and includes a T-shirt. There is a sign up sheet in the church hallway. Deadline to sign up is Tuesday, September 27. For further information, contact Rebecca Richards.

HOMESCHOOL CO-OP GEARS UP FOR NEW YEAR

CHILDRENS CHURCH SCHEDULE SEPTEMBER 4

Included in worship service SEPTEMBER 11

FIRST SERVICE: Ashley Heavener SECOND SERVICE: Danielle Snider

SEPTEMBER 18 FIRST SERVICE: Ashley Heavener SECOND SERVICE: Danielle Snider

SEPTEMBER 25 FIRST SERVICE: Caitlyn Myers & Rebecca Richards SECOND SERVICE: Heidi & Gracie Swope

OCTOBER 2 Included in worship services.

OCTOBER 9 FIRST SERVICE: Vicki Rafferty SECOND SERVICE: Jalynn Parks

OCTOBER 16 FIRST SERVICE: Vicki Rafferty SECOND SERVICE: Jalynn Parks

OCTOBER 23 FIRST SERVICE: Vicki Rafferty SECOND SERVICE: Jalynn Parks

OCTOBER 30 FIRST SERVICE: Vicki Rafferty SECOND SERVICE: Jalynn Parks

September 19th will be the first day of school for the EBC Homeschool co-op. This is the fourth year for the co-op and once again have reached full enrollment. Teachers for this year are Andrea Harden along with Shirley Livingstone who will be teaching grades kinder-

garten thru grade three on Mondays and Wednesdays 9 a.m. to noon. Pastor Phil Westenbarger will be teaching History on Tuesdays. Rebecca Arthur will be teaching Science. French will be taught by Ann Rol-ston. Heather Dickerson will be teaching the preschool class. Fridays are reserved for special events and field trips . The homeschool co-op is looking forward to another successful and fun school year.

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CHILDRENS MINISTRY NEWS

NURSERY SCHEDULE

SEPTEMBER 4 FIRST SERVICE: Zach & Morgan Schluep NURSERY: Karen Westenbarger SECOND SERVICE: Tanna Sigler & Sarah Williams

SEPTEMBER 11 FIRST SERVICE: Melissa Russell & Mary Marshall NURSERY: Kristen Stimmel SECOND SERVICE: Keri Clark & Amanda Williams

SEPTEMBER 18 FIRST SERVICE: Patty & Adrian King NURSERY: Jane Howdyshell SECOND SERVICE: Matt & Crystal Guttridge

SEPTEMBER 25 FIRST SERVICE: Greg & Jennifer Godby NURSERY: Lisa Stevens SECOND SERVICE: Catrina Hubbard & Tina Smathers

OCTOBER 2 FIRST SERVICE: Zach & Morgan Schluep

NURSERY: Karen Westenbarger SECOND SERVICE: Tanna Sigler & Sarah Williams

OCTOBER 9 FIRST SERVICE: Seth & Shyller Stimmel NURSERY: Kristen Stimmel SECOND SERVICE: Keri Clark & Amanda Williams

OCTOBER 16 FIRST SERVICE: Melissa Russell & Katie Alvarez NURSERY: Jane Howdyshell SECOND SERVICE: Trevor & Danielle Snider

OCTOBER 23 FIRST SERVICE: Jessy & Ashley Herring NURSERY: Lisa Stevens SECOND SERVICE: Catrina Hubbard & Tina Smathers

OCTOBER 30 FIRST SERVICE: Adrian King & Rebecca Richards NURSERY: Jane Howdyshell SECOND SERVICE: Jeff & Julie Baron

OLYMPIANS & GOPHER BUDDIES STARTS NEW YEAR

September 25 kicks off another rousing year of Gopher Buddies and Olympians. Children ages 4 through grade four will learn Bible verses, engage in Christian service, do activities, play games, and more each Sunday night from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

This year’s theme is “In God’s Army”. Two of the Christian service projects will focus on our military. Past and present military personnel are invited to schedule a visit with the children and share about their experiences in the service. Another project involves sending cards and care packages to active military members. Names and addresses are needed for this project. Contact Carrie Shymanski to sched-ule a visit or contribute names of active military.

DAVID IS CALLED AS KING

Can you find the 11 differences between the two pictures?

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SUNDAY NIGHTS AT EBENZER KICKS OFF SEPTEMBER 25

Institute on the Constitution presents “Our Christian Heritage: The Truth of America’s Biblical Founding”, a one day seminar for pastors, church and community leaders. This will take place Saturday, September 24, 10:00

a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Registration begins at 9:30 a.m. at Ebenezer Baptist Church. Materials are $40. Couples can share materials. A free lunch will be served to par-ticipants. Registration deadline is Monday, September 19. There is limited space, so those interested should sign up early. Some of the topics to be discussed include: Christo-pher Columbus’ real reason for sailing west; why the Pilgrims came to America; Why the Declaration of In-dependence, Bill of Rights, and the Constitution are arguably the most important document in the world.

Other subjects will include modern day applications, what pastors and other Christians can do, what does the Bible say about politics and earthly government, and legal guidelines for pastors and churches. Register by calling the church office at 385-8411.

A new year of Sunday Nights at Ebenezer com-mences September 25 at 5:30 p.m. Discipleship Classes and Bible study groups will be available for all ages. We encourage you and your family to become a part of our Sunday night activities.

Gopher Buddies (ages 4 & 5) and Olympians (grades one through four) will learn Bible verses, engage in Christian service, activities, games, and more each Sun-day night from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Youth 190 (grades five and six) and grades seven and eight will be doing a study entitled “Teach Us Your Way”, based on the Sermon on the Mount. The emphasis for Youth 180 (grades nine through 12) will be learning how to study the Bible. Adults have the options of three Bible/Book studies. “Real Life Discipleship” will be led by Bart Clark. Pastor

Phil Westenbarger will be leading a study on the Ser-mon on the Mount. “Strengthening Your Grip”, a book study by Charles Swindoll will be led by Scott Lipker. Each of these studies runs 12 weeks. New studies will be offered after these studies conclude. A nursery will be provided for those needing child-care. Transportation is also available for anyone need-ing a ride. In additions to our activities here at Ebenezer, IFUEL at Hocking College has begun. A group leaves from

the church at 5:45 p.m. each week Our Sunday night ministries provide excellent oppor-tunities for spiritual growth. Make plans to get in-volved! For more details, contact the church office.

INSTITUTE ON THE CONSTITUTION PRESENTS ONE-DAY SEMINAR

Each year millions of men, women and children are victims of sexual and forced-labor human trafficking. For the past several years our church has held a bene-fit golf outing with proceeds going to fight human trafficking.

This year’s golf outing will be Saturday, September 10 at Pumpkin Vine Golf Course in Bremen. The gath-ering time is 9:00 a.m. with tee off at 9:30 a.m. The fee is $35 per person for the 18 hole event. This is a four player scramble. Participants are asked to assemble their teams. A meal will be provided after the golf outing. All proceeds will go to the Salvation Army to help in their effort to combat human trafficking. For more information, contact the church office.

GOLF OUTING TO HELP FIGHT HUMAN TRAFFICKING

A common statement within Christianity goes some-thing like this, “Doctrine divides, we need to spend less time concerning ourselves with these issues and spend more time loving Jesus and people.” This is an interesting statement for a number of reasons. First, there is no ques-

tion that Christians should love Jesus and people more. However, who defines who Jesus is and what love is? My idea of Jesus and love may differ from someone else. What about those under the Christian umbrella that see Jesus as more feminine than others do? Do Christians and Mormons believe in the same Jesus? We sure do use the same terminology. Many of you have already an-swered these questions in your mind. Guess what just happened? Doctrine/theology just happened. Second, should we apply this idea to those living out-side of America? One of many questions grabbed my at-

tention in an article entitled, Perceptions of Jesus, Chris-tians & Evangelism in the UK. “So what do UK adults know and believe about Jesus Christ?” Here is a stagger-ing find: “You don’t have to be a Christian to believe Jesus actually walked the earth 2,000 years ago, and among the general population of UK adults, this historical reality

is a common assumption.”¹ While tragic, if doctrine does

not matter then neither does this result. Just encourage

them to love Jesus and people, right? Third, I find it inter-

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esting that the apostle Paul told young Timothy “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine…(2 Timothy 4:3). Furthermore, Paul encourages Timothy to “remain on at Ephesus so that you may instruct certain men not to teach strange doctrines” (1 Timothy 1:3). If doctrine

does not matter why does Paul bring up the importance of it? Christian theologian J.I Packer said something sobering, “A much-traveled leader, a native American (be it said), has declared that he finds North American Protestantism, man-centered, manipulative, success-oriented, self-indulgent and sentimental, as it blatantly is, to be 3,000 miles wide and half an inch deep.” ²

Not all doctrinal points are worth dividing over, but if a per-son believes none are worthy of division something is terribly wrong. It has been said the moment you open your mouth to explain who Jesus is you are engaging in doctrine and

theology, Therefore, it is of extreme importance. Doctrine comes from Scripture and this alone tells us who Christ is and what love truly is. Next time we will begin looking at what doctrines are worthy of division and later those that are not.

1)Barna Group, Research Releases in Faith & Christianity, Febru-

ary 10, 2016, https://www.barna.org/research/faith-christianity/research-release/perceptions-jesus-christians-evangelism-uk#.V5DfFmVqdg0

2)J.I. Packer, The Quest For Godliness: The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life (Wheaton, IL, Crossway Publications, 1990), 22.

By Pastor Tim Coleman

Join us for Jubilee 2016; a time of praise for all that God has done in and through Ebenezer Baptist Church. The Jubilee schedule will be Wednesday though Saturday, October 12 through 15, 7:00 p.m. and Sunday, October 16, 8:15 a.m. and 11:00 pm.

There will be no Sunday school this day.

Scheduled Jubilee speakers and music leaders are:

WEDNESAY: Malcolm Carter, Doug Smith and Buddy Mullins THURSDAY: Jimmy Franks, Doug Smith and Buddy Mullins

FRIDAY: Craig Edwards, Doug Smith and Buddy Mullins SATURDAY EVENING OF PRAISE: Bob Burney, Doug Smith

and Jonathan White SUNDAY: Joe Veal, Doug Smith and Jonathan White

J& Y Ministries will provide special services for children during Jubilee. In addition, Builder for Christ will be present Sunday to make a commit-

ment to help us build our children’s wing next summer God is doing amazing things! We invite you to come and celebrate His goodness!

JUBILEE 2016

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MINISTRY OPPORTUNITY: CHRISTMAS TOY BOX MINISTRY

Last year, our Christmas Toy Ministry gave away al-most all of their stock of toys. With Christmas Shopping

just around the corner, we asking for the following donations of new toys each month leading up to Christmas:

SEPTEMBER

board games or puzzles, Barbie or other baby dolls OCTOBER

toy cars and action figures NOVEMBER

craft kits for boy or girls DECEMBER

baby and toddler toys

You can also make a monetary donation to the Christmas Toy Ministry. In the next few weeks, there will also be a “Giving Wall” in the church hallway. Church members can take a card with a specific item for toy donations. This year we are partnering with the Glouster Southern Baptist Church to distribute toys in Glouster area also. If you need more information, or would like to help with the Christmas Toy Ministry, contact April Lowther

or Tammy Lipker

It was another successful year for the Backpacks of Hope Ministry. 120 backpacks were delivered to Logan-Hocking Schools and 30 backpacks were given to the Glouster Southern Baptist Church. Several individuals also received backpacks. There are a few backpacks left

if anyone needs school supplies. Total number of Backpacks of Hope delivered this year is 165. Each drawstring backpack contained a composition notebook, two spiral notebooks, colored pencils, washable markers, crayons, two highlighters, a calculator, glue stick, hand sanitizer, scissors, two fold-e r s , p e n c i l s , a n d e r a s e r s . In addition, our church donated new socks for the Perry County Back to School Bash held at the Perry County Fairgrounds August 13. More than 700 chil-dren received socks.

Thank you to everyone who donated socks. A special thank you to Tina Smathers for collecting socks during VBS. Thank you also to Kim Harley for letting our church know about the need for the socks, helping to sort, and for keeping everyone organized during the giveaway. We look forward to adding this to our school ministry again next year.

BACKPACKS OF HOPE BENEFIT AREA

SCHOOL CHILDREN

SEPTEMBER 4 First Service: Roger & Dodie Carpenter

Second Service: Patty LeClain SEPTEMBER 11

First Service: Betty Wallace

Second Service: Jim Martin SEPTEMBER 18

First Service: Lanie Hatem Second Service: Martha Pitts

SEPTEMBER 25 First Service: Judy Wolfe

Second Service: Kay Wilson OCTOBER 2

First Service: Roger & Dodie Carpenter Second Service: Patty LeClain

OCTOBER 9

First Service: Betty Wallace Second Service: Jim Martin

OCTOBER 16 First Service: Lanie Hatem

Second Service: Martha Pitts OCTOBER 23

First Service: Judy Wolfe Second Service: Kay Wilson

OCTOBER 30 First Service: Judy Wolfe

Second Service: Jana Hartman

We would like to say “hello” and “welcome “ to our newest church members:

Megan Anzalone Scott Anzalone Kristina Boring Mary Marshsall

If you would like to learn how to become a member of Ebenezer Baptist Church, we invite to come forward at during the invitation time at the close of each ser-vice. You can also contact Pastor Steve or one of our Deacons.

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Vacation Bible School was held July 11 through 15. We had an amazing time with an average of 130 children attending throughout the week. Our theme was “Investigating Dinosaurs”. During the week Scott and Amy Campbell taught about how dinosaurs fit into the Bible’s account of crea-tion by using slideshow presentations and hands-on displays of fossils and life size dino-saur models. Throughout the week children also partici-pated in The Perry County Sheriff’s Depart-ment’s Safety Town and learned about police investigations, equipment, and being safe in the park, They also toured police vehicles and met Argo, the department’s K-9. Other activities each evening included wor-ship, crafts, Bible lessons, “dino snacks”, and games. For Tuesday’s game time, Hocking Hills Inflatables provided two bounce houses. Friday’s closing ceremony gave parents the opportunity to see what their children learned at VBS. Afterwards, pizza was pro-vided for everyone. The week capped off with a tug of war over a dino mud pit. Thank you to Les & Tina Smathers, all of our VBS workers, Sheriff William Barker and the Perry County Sheriff’s Department, Scott & Amy Campbell, Shelley Riggs for donating decorations, and Hocking Hills Inflatables for your hard work and dedication to our church’s VBS ministry.

VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL UPDATE

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AMERICAN RED CROSS BLOOD MOBILE RETURNS IN OCTOBER

The American Red Cross blood mobile will return to our church Sunday, October 2. Individuals can donate blood from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 pm. All blood types are needed. Donors age 18 and un-der need parental consent and all donors need to present photo identification.

As an added incentive for blood donors, the Red Cross is offer-ing a coupon for a free slice of pizza from Sbarro. Donors can also enter for a chance to win a Hocking Hills getaway with zip line tour for two. Both offers are good for the month of October. Donors must sign up in advance. A sign up sheet is available at the Welcome Center. Donors can also visit http://www.redcross.org/give-blood for more information or contact Jana Hartman or Lisa Heavener